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¡Viva Podcasts!

11/13/2012

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For the last several years the podcast has been my favorite medium. I discovered them when my wife bought me my first iPod. I'd estimate that 80 or 90 percent of the time I'm listening to something, it's a podcast and not music. I like to listen to them whenever I'm doing the day's 1,001 tasks. The meager household chores I manage to accomplish are almost entirely due to the wretchedness-reducing power of podcasts.

All dish washing and gutter cleaning is done in my aural cocoon. Pity my wife. Sometimes she lives with the equivalent of a mental patient who has made a psychotic break, an unresponsive schizo who laughs randomly and gets angry when interrupted from his reverie.
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I've listed my favorites on the right side. I listen to several from the Earwolf family. That's where my favorite comedy is coming from these days. There are some that have ended their run that are worth checking out. My favorite of these is "Analyze Phish." Over the course of six or seven episodes Harris Wittels tries to convince Scott Aukerman to like the band Phish. I hate Phish, but I loved this podcast.

If you have any recommendations based on what you see here, please leave them in the comments.


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